Improvement in hoop-skirts



PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN F. CHASE, OF AUGUSTA, MAINE.

IMPROVEMENT IN HOOP-SKIRTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 91,418, dated June 15, 1869.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, J oHN F. CHAsE, of Augusta, in the county of Kennebec and State of Maine, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hoop-Skirts; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description 'of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l oi' the drawings is a representation of my improved skirt in full. Fig. 2 is a view of the inside and lower skirt. Fig. 8 is aview of the outer or ounce skirt.

My invention consists in the employment of a lower or main skirt having no hoops at its upper part, in connection with a ounce-skirt, the two skirts being connected together only at the waistband, and the main skirt being adjusted by hooks and eyelets.

In the accompanying drawings, A is the main skirt, which is constructed in the usual manner at the lower part; but the hoops are omitted in the upper portion of said skirt. By this construction of skirt greater lightness is attained, and more freedom to the hips and lower portion of the body is secured, while there is less pressure thereon by the weight of the skirt. Over this skirt is the short iounceskirt B, reaching down from one-fourth to onehalf of the length of the main or under skirt. rlhe two skirts are connected together only at the waistband.

D D, Fig. 2, represent eyelets in the tapes which connect the hoops of the main skirt, into which hooks may be made to pass for the purpose of raising or lowering the under skirt to adapt it to dresses of different lengths.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture, the hereindescribed hoop-skirt, consisting of the lower or main skirt, A, having no hoops at its upper part, and the upper or ilounce skirt, B, the sk-irts A B being connected together only at the waistband, and the skirt A being made adjustable by hooks and eyelets, substantially as described.

JOHN E cHAsE. [L s] 

